Ifpossible, try to disable UPnP on your router temporarily, then try to start and setup the game. On certain router models, UPnP on the router can cause LAN connectivity issues on Windows Vista and later. After playing, you can enable UPnP again. pointrelay. Ageof Empires 2 HD on VirtualBox. Posted on 2013-04-20 by Jethro Carr. It’s been a few years since I’d last played it, but Age of Empires is still one of my all time favourite games. I started playing it back as a young noobling on Windows 98 with a Celeron 433mhz machine and loved the perfect balance the game achieved between simplicity DMZenabled. The only way we can do this now on AOE2DE is by using a VPN, but it is not a problem for us. Using a VPN connection with no common gateway (usually Windows VPN) doesn’t work. My bet is that the game is doing a broadcast to gateway to find the other peers. Using a OpenVPN server works fine. AoE2 HD doesn't have LAN. You have to play online if you want multiplayer. As for the original, no idea why it isn't working for you. Haven't tried LAN on that since Windows XP. That's pretty weird, because AoE 2 was working just fine via LAN for me. 1Visit the Steam website. In AoE2HD, multiplayer games (including LAN) cannot be played without Steam. The game itself can 74NzoO.